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Assigning managers to values

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After you have defined your fields, such as projects, cost centers, or other characteristics of your expenses, you can define specific managers for each field value.

The manager you will define is important if you need expense approval based on these fields, for example, if expenses for different projects have to be approved by different project managers.

Adding managers to values

To assign managers to values in Payhawk:

  1. In the Payhawk Web Portal, go to Settings > Fields library.

  2. Select the desired field by clicking on it, for example, Cost center. The user interaction is identical for all values to which you may need to assign managers.

  3. Under the Values tab, select the value you want to configure managers for, for example, Production.

  4. In the panel that opens, under Managers, select the names of the specific managers from the drop-down list.

  5. Click on Save.

    BusinessUnit values in the Fields library with the value panel open and a manager selected under Managers.

When you open a field from a spend type, you can view the managers assigned to each value, but you can only edit these managers from the Fields library.

Removing managers from values

To remove managers from values in Payhawk:

  1. In the Payhawk Web Portal, go to Settings > Fields library.

  2. Select the desired field by clicking on it, for example, Business unit. The user interaction is identical for all values to which you may need to assign managers.

  3. Under the Values tab, select the desired value, for example, Electronics.

  4. In the panel that opens, hover over the name you want to remove and click on x.

  5. Click on Save.

    Value panel with the pointer over the manager's name, showing the x that removes the manager.

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